‘Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements Market Assessment 2007′ Reveals the VMS Market Grew by Only 0.4% in Value Terms in … (Centre Daily Times) Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c81270) has announced the addition of "Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements Market Assessment 2007" to their offering. [News Source]

‘Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements Market Assessment 2007′ Reveals the VMS Market Grew by Only 0.4% in Value Terms in … (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of "Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements Market Assessment 2007" to their offering. [News Source]

Vitamin Shoppe to open first Hawaii store (BizJournals) The Vitamin Shoppe, a New York-based chain of health stores, will open its first Hawaii store next month in Aiea. [News Source]

S.F. targets artery-clogging trans fats.

The Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to begin a City Hall push to get artery-clogging trans fats out of the food served in San Francisco restaurants.

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Keeping an eye on mercury. Sushi fans in the Big Apple were no doubt dismayed by a front-page story in the New York Times this month. [News Source]

Berkeley aims to reduce emissions 80 percent by 2050. City leaders on Monday took a hydrogen-powered bus to a solar-powered building made of rice straw bales to unveil an innovative new program to reduce Berkeley's greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050. [News Source]

Introducing the absolute scale of food healthfulness. Since July of last year, these mascots--and others peddling food high in fat, salt, or sugar--are slowly disappearing from British television. The purge represents the U.K.'s most recent strategy to fight childhood obesity. [News Source]

Worrying times for Indian egg producers. After the outbreak of bird flu in West Bengal in eastern India many people have modified their eating habits. [News Source]

Taking worry off the plate. Watching the amount of mercury in your diet does not have to mean avoiding seafood. [News Source]

More testing of seafood to address mercury concerns. A number of restaurants and retailers in different parts of the country have started testing the fish they sell in response to concerns about the amount of mercury in seafood. [News Source]

Harmful pesticides found in everyday food products. Government promises to rid the nation's food supply of brain-damaging pesticides aren't doing the job, according to the results of a yearlong study that carefully monitored the diets of a group of local children. [News Source]

Rating the best and the worst of Vitamin Water (Flyer News) Vitamins + Water = All you need. That’s the word on the street, according to Vitamin Water. Does that sound a little biased? No — why must you be so skeptical about things? [News Source]